Which kind are you?

When you travel in the classiness that is today's commercial air carrier world, what kind of airport arriver are you? I think most fall into two camps:

1.  Arrive no earlier than required, and frequently later than is reasonable, sometimes requiring a change from long term to short term parking, and maybe a dash down to the gate.

2.  Take the suggested arrival time, add about 20 minutes, then another 20 minutes because there are 4 humans traveling together or there might be a random traffic jam, often arriving at the airport with enough time to eat an entire sit down meal before the early boarding is called.

My beloved husband is often a #1, and I am a #2.  I was raised by an extreme #2 (6AM flight usually means a requested 4AM drop off which means a 3:15AM leave the house time) so I try to temper my #2 tendencies, but I can't help it.  I KNOW what a hassle being very late for or missing a flight is, and I hate when it's a possibility.

So it's no surprise that we arrived at the Manchester, NH airport about 2 1/2 hours prior to our flight.  Greg suggested some options to kill time, which I was trying my best to poo-poo, until he said, "There must be  bead store around here, right?  Want to go wander for a few minutes?"  Dirty trick, but oh so effective.  Sure enough, that part of New Hampshire has a couple bead shops, including The Bead Patch, which is a mere 15 minutes from the airport.  Like many LBS's, it was small and tucked in the back, second floor of a building, but their web site pointed out some landmarks that made it easy to find.

It was the most organized and well marked bead shop I have ever been into.  I am terrible at remembering what I paid for what once I leave a shop (just check out how many "faceted stone" and "yellow stone" type descriptions I have in my Etsy shop), and the Bead Patch has computer generated labels on each strand of each item they have displayed.  Greg remarked, "Oh, I thought you would just be looking, not buying" but is that even possible? I thought I exercised enormous restraint: